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TIL 749 US Servicemen were killed in England in 1944's Top-Secret Exercise Tiger

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LkyGQ TIL that Nicholas Flamel (the character from the first Harry Potter book who had the sorcerer’s/philosopher’s stone) was a real person who was thought to be an alchemist who really had discovered the stone and thereby achieved immortality.
epOAb TIL "yt ppl" refers to “white people”
JYmrV TIL that from 2004 to 2011 Canada had Pillow Fighting League.
BDBy TIL that between 1941-1944, Turkish diplomats saved thousands of Jews by issuing them Turkish passports and sometimes pulling them off trains headed for the death camps. Among these diplomats was Necdet Kent, whose son Muhtar Kent, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Coca-Cola.
Oo84 TIL that in the 1920s, a Japanese professor used to walk home with his dog from the train station every evening. When the professor died unexpectedly, the dog waited without fail each day at arrival time at the station for nine years until his own death.